Regulating migrant maternity: Nursing and midwifery's emancipatory aims and assimilatory practices

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 293-304

  Desouza, Ruth ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Culture; Discourse; Feminism; Foucault; Maternal health; Migration

Indexed keywords

DISCUSSION GROUP;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; FOUCAULT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATERNAL WELFARE; MIDWIFE; MIGRATION; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CULTURE; DISCOURSE; FEMINISM; FOUCAULT; MATERNAL HEALTH; MIGRATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; FEMINISM; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDWIFERY; NEW ZEALAND; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84887597349     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12020     Document Type: Article

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